BBC Tells World About The Warden

Anonymous Cowpat writes "The BBC is running a story about the Blizzard title World of Warcraft. Specifically an article about, 'The Warden', Blizzard's highly-invasive anti-cheating software, which some, including The EFF have labelled as spyware. Most of the people around here have probably heard of it by now, but it's interesting to see the story in the mainstream press and (at time of writing) on the front page of the BBC's technology news section, no less." From the article: "The watchdog program, called The Warden by Blizzard, has been known about among players for some time. It makes sure that players are not using cheat software which can, for example, automatically play the game and build up a character's qualities. However, knowledge of it crossed to the mainstream thanks to software engineer Greg Hoglund who disassembled the code of The Warden and watched it in action to get a better idea of what it did."

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Re:Pertinent quote from "Terms of Use"

[geekoid]

First off, in WoW 'cheating' has almost no effect on players.
Second, Blizzard give the user no chance to prove otherwise.
Third, I don't use bots, and farming is ENCOURAGED by Blizzard. Why else would you need to do the same instance ad-nauseum to get certian loots?